EPISODE

9. Ghost Hunter

Paranormal investigators seek to understand the supernatural and often use their knowledge to help others. But what happens to these experts when the subject of their studies turns on them? Stacy Jones has dedicated her life to helping others understand and cope with paranormal threats. As an expert, she feels comfortable allowing her teenage son, Jamie, to join her on an investigation at a cemetery near their home in New York. But soon after he returns home, Jamie discovers a strange marking scratched into his leg. Jaime hears unexplainable noises resound in the house and sees objects fly across the room. He knows he has awakened something evil. When Stacey witnesses the demon attacking Jamie, she enlists her friend and colleague John Zaffis to save her son from an entity bent on possessing his soul.

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Paranormal investigator Stacey Jones lives in Syracuse, New York with her second husband Lloyd, and teenage son Jamie. When Stacey brings Jamie along with her mentor and the other investigators to investigate a cemetery that holds the bodies of many U.S. soldiers in many wars that goes back to the mid-18th century, Jamie is possessed by a spirit and his life begins going downhill. He does poorly in school, gets into trouble, and starts to have an attitude. After contacting paranormal researcher John Zaffis, Stacey soon realizes that Jamie is possessed by a demon that soon begins to strike her physically. An exorcism is planned at Zaffis' house to be performed. Before it, he warns Stacey to keep her distance because the demon is after her and will use Jamie to hurt her. During the exorcism, the priest's wife finds out the demon's name and her husband uses it to expel the demon spirit out of Jamie.

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